City Hall  
City of La Crosse, Wisconsin  
400 La Crosse Street  
La Crosse, WI 54601  
Meeting Agenda - Final  
Finance & Personnel Committee  
Thursday, April 4, 2024  
6:00 PM  
Council Chambers  
City Hall, First Floor  
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La Crosse WI 54601.  
Call To Order  
Roll Call  
Agenda Items:  
NEW BUSINESS  
Resolution establishing the 2025-2029 Capital Equipment Budget.  
Reynolds  
24-0311  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving the five-year Lease Agreement extension between the  
City of La Crosse and City Brewing Company, LLC for parking spaces near  
Marco Drive.  
24-0317  
Woodard  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving the five-year Lease Agreement extension between the  
City of La Crosse and City Brewing Company, LLC for parking spaces near  
Joseph Houska Drive and Hood St.  
24-0318  
Woodard  
Sponsors:  
Resolution regarding sidewalk installation on 27th, 28th & 29th Street between  
Robinsdale Avenue and Diagonal Road.  
24-0348  
24-0400  
Happel  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving the carryover of unexpended appropriations from the 2023  
Operating Budget to the 2024 Operating Budget and 2023 year-end budget  
adjustments for department cost overruns.  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution allocating funds to update Chapter 115-Zoning of the Municipal  
Code.  
24-0409  
24-0434  
Trost and Sleznikow  
Sponsors:  
Resolution electing to self-insure for worker’s compensation liability in  
accordance with Wisconsin Administrative Code, Department of Workforce  
Development (DWD) Section 80.60(3).  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Resolution reallocating unused capital funds from 2022 and 2023 to 2024 traffic  
calming and sidewalk projects.  
24-0442  
24-0460  
Trost and Sleznikow  
Sponsors:  
Resolution approving a Lateral Transfer Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)  
between the City of La Crosse and the International Association of Firefighters,  
Local #127.  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
A Resolution providing for the issuance and sale of approximately $6,005,000  
aggregate principal amount of Sewer System Revenue Bonds, Series 2024-A,  
of the City of La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin, providing details,  
prescribing the form of bond, awarding said revenue bonds to the best bidder,  
and providing for the payment of said revenue bonds and other details and  
covenants with respect thereto.  
24-0482  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Short-circuited by Mayor Reynolds on 3.28.2024  
Resolution approving and ratifying a collective bargaining agreement between  
the City of La Crosse and the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local #519 for  
2023-2025.  
24-0483  
24-0001  
Reynolds  
Sponsors:  
Short-circuited by Mayor Reynolds on 3.28.2024  
Collective Bargaining Update.  
(Note: The Committee and/or Council may convene in closed session pursuant to Wis.  
Stat. 19.85(1)(e) to formulate & update negotiation strategies and parameters. Following  
such closed session, the Committees and/or Council may reconvene in open session.)  
F&P Item Only, unless otherwise directed.  
Adjournment  
Notice is further given that members of other governmental bodies may be present at the above  
scheduled meeting to gather information about a subject over which they have decision-making  
responsibility.  
NOTICE TO PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY  
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the City Clerk's office at (608) 789-7510 or send an email to ADAcityclerk@cityoflacrosse.org, with as  
much advance notice as possible.  
Finance & Personnel Members:  
Doug Happel, Larry Sleznikow, Erin Goggin, Barb Janssen, Rebecca Schwarz, Mark Neumann